Ex-Stamford teacher Mishuck accused of having sex with student

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Updated 8:44 pm, Thursday, October 31, 2013

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This booking photo provided by the Fairfield Police Department shows former Fairfield Ludlowe High School teacher Glenn Mishuck, of Bridgeport, Conn. Mishuck, 47, was arrested and charged Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 with sexual assault after an investigation determined he had a sexual relationship with an under-aged female student.

FAIRFIELD -- A former Stamford teacher has been charged with having sex numerous times with an underage female student at a Fairfield school where he had taught for more than a decade.

Glenn Mishuck, 47, of Ellsworth Street in Bridgeport, was charged Thursday with 17 counts of second-degree sexual assault in what police said was the number of sexual encounters he had with the student between July and September of this year.

Text messages between Mishuck and the student detailing their encounters were used by investigators to uncover the relationship, police said.

Mishuck taught in Stamford public schools from 1993 to 2000, according to district spokeswoman Sharon Beadle. He left his employment with Stamford of his own accord she said. He has taught at Fairfield Ludlowe High School for 12 years.

The text messages show that this past spring Mishuck invited the girl to his Black Rock apartment to do homework and "hang out," according to court documents. She fell asleep on his couch and he carried her to the bed, but that night he returned to the couch to sleep alone.

Later there were mutual massages that led to more. The student recalled each time they had sex in detailed text messages to Mishuck, the arrest warrant affidavit shows. She said he always used protection.

Asked by police if Mishuck ever promised her anything, the girl said, "Only that he would not hurt me."

On Sept. 17, police said the girl's father became suspicious of his daughter supposedly leaving for the gym so early in the morning and checked her cell phone, where he found the text messages between his daughter and Mishuck. The daughter pleaded with her father that she and "Mish" -- as he was known to many students -- had a "special" friendship. The texts, later turned over to police, showed that it was more than that.

Mishuck was placed on administrative leave once the Fairfield school district learned of the investigation, and he resigned his teaching position Oct. 7 after police tried to question him about the matter. But his texts to the girl continued.

"Just know I have said nothing," he texted the girl, according to the warrant. "I have a pretty good idea what they know. Just know that I care about you and believe in you so much."

After his arrest Thursday, Mishuck was arraigned at Superior Court in Bridgeport, where his lawyer, William Westcott, told Judge Earl Richards that his client's bond of $150,000 was excessive, and urged the judge to release his client on a promise to appear. The judge refused and continued the case to Nov. 26.

"Mr. Mishuck has a completely clear criminal record and has the support of his family," Westcott said later. "He intends to fully address this matter as it goes along."

Mishuck and his wife Kim M. Mishuck, of Newtown, filed for an uncontested divorce on May 30, and were granted the split by a Bridgeport State Superior Court judge on Aug. 23.

His is the second arrest in a week involving former Fairfield school personnel having sexual relations with teenagers.

Morgan V. Frawley, 25, of Soundview Avenue, a former substitute teacher in Fairfield schools and a youth group leader at a New Canaan church, was charged with risk of injury to a minor by New Canaan police, who said she had sexual relations with a 15-year-old boy in that town. Fairfield police said there was no record of any similar complaints against Frawley in Fairfield.

Under state law, any applicants for a job in the public schools must be fingerprinted, Deputy Superintendent of Schools Karen Parks said. The fingerprints are then sent to the FBI and State Police for record checks. Applicants are also checked against the state's sex offender registry, and their personal references are called, Parks said.

Regarding the Mishuck case, Parks said, "There are always things that slip through the cracks, but I don't think there was in this case -- at least that we know of."